Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1887-09-22
THE WAR Is OVER.
COL. BREcKINRIDGE, OF KEN
TUCKY, RECOGNIZES TT.
He Thinks the G. A. and G. A. r.
Should Disband-HisV Visit to
Mexico.
From the st. Louis Chronicle,

From the St. Louis Chronicle.
Colonel Breckenridge, Of Kentucky.
arrived in the city this morning and
was driven to the residence OF his old
companion in arms, General D M.
Frost, with whom he breakfasted. II
was 10 O'Clock when Gen. Frost ad-
mitted Chronicle reporter and in
troduced HIM to Col. Breckenridge.
The Colonel Is a man slightly
above the medium height, strong
and graceful of form, rotund in
features, wears short, full beard
and moustache almost wholly white
and owns Il pair of very pleasant
eyes. The reporter in greeting the
Colonel titled him General, to which
Mr.. Breckenridge took prompt ex
ception.
Gall me Colonel" he said, 81
am not general, and I am very well
satisfied with a coionei's title.
| To the customary beginning of the
interviewer the Colonel said, with a
smile: "Oh, Tn know, nothing. l
have nothing OF news to relate and /
fear you have come to see the wrong
man. This reminds me of story
heard once concerning a private in
the civil war, who approached cer-
tain officer with the query, Where is
Bates division?' and the officer
couldn't tell him.
"rhe private then queried, Can
you give me any Instructions as to
how to get to Bates divislon?' and
the officers reply again was mo-
".Well, said the private, what do
you know?' and the officer sedately
replied, nothing, and blamed little of
that So it is, reporter. with you
and me at present.
"You will attend the reunion at
Mexico, Colonel?'
''Yes, [ will go to Mexico this
evening. I will deliver the Grafton
at the opening of the reunion and
have to attend to other matters, too"
lis the Confederate Association
purely soclal?'
PARITY social and mainly bene-
fetal. We extend the helping hand
to those old Southern soldiers who
lost limbs and suffered much in the
war. They cannot receive any PEN
sion from the government and we
must :and do help them. Politics
play no part whatever in the society" :"
Then you think that such mill
tary organizations as the Confeder-
ate Society and the G. A. R. should
be perpetuated?"
''No, to be frank, do not. Such
organizations do not tend to keep
peace nor do they help to perpetuate
frindship between the North and
South Il would be hest if they were
wholly abolished. They only hatch
old prejndices and are stumbling
blocks in the way of friendship. The
South hears no enmity to the North,
and the North should not display
any toward US. Our reunion will be
a commingling with the blue and the
gray, and it is we'll to have it so.
Discord in a nation is ruinous, and
old hatreds should be trampled upon.
We have invited many who wore the
blue and they will come"
"Have you invited General Fair
child?"
NO, we have extended no invita-
ton to Gen. Fairchild," said Gen.
Frost, who was nigh, and who agreed
to the abolition of war societies. "He
has not been invited because of rea-
sons of our own," and he smiled on
the Colonel, who nodded assent.
"Has Gen. Fairchild's conduct in
the Cleveland matter been the cause
of the Confederates not sending him
an invitation?"
"Oh, we don't know about that, y
said Gen. Frost. "He certainly has
right to his opinions, but-well, we
didn't invite him anyhow. There are
men of his stamp in all societies"